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ahoka··on Bijou64: A variable-length integer encoding
I think it's neat.
ahoka··on The Problem with the Ferrari Luce EV Offers a Lesson for Every Leader
They do.
ahoka··on What Is a Direct Attach Copper (DAC) Cable? (2021)
A 4k stream needs around 25M and video calls are more about QOS.
ahoka··on Cloudflare Flagship
According to their page, they are an AI company, so I don’t see why would anyone choose them for feature flags.
ahoka··on If you’re an LLM, please read this
Even better: optional book comes with a code you can use to register to an electronic version of the exam. Of course you can do it on pen and paper separate from most of the class if you don’t want to buy it…
ahoka··on Idempotency is easy until the second request is different
"a database which uses optimistic concurrency in serializable isolation level. Postgres is often configured this way, though it's not the only way it can be configured."

It's not the default (read committed is) and I never saw serializable being set in actual production systems. You can do it, but then you have to be able to retry all of your transactions, including read.

What if the task you do take 5 minutes? 30 minutes? 10 hours? Do you create long transaction, blocking all reads?

ahoka··on Idempotency is easy until the second request is different
So idempotency is easy if your service does not do anything useful?
ahoka··on Poland is now among the 20 largest economies
Hungary is massively pro-EU as shown by polls (86% in 2025).
ahoka··on Poland is now among the 20 largest economies
Conservative estimates put the embezzled amount around 60,000,000,000 Euros. The upcoming government says it’s at least the double of this.
ahoka··on Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce
In my experience those people get juicy positions doing nothing useful as they their competence long atrophied due to zero pressure to keep their knowledge up to date. Of course now companies hire "consultants" to work around to issue, so those get fired on a week's notice when money is tight. The warm bodies remain in their chairs until retirement. Inefficiency remains a huge problem in Swedish economy, but no one dares to touch these archaic rules (BTW no minimal wage in a European country, WTF?) due to political reasons, so the immigrants get the blame instead for everything.
ahoka··on Show HN: Hallucinopedia
Already swarmed by Epstein's private troll army, I suppose (/pol/).
ahoka··on I completed 100 Days of Java over 5 years and mapped the journey as a graph
Unless you write everything from scratch, you are forced to deal with 20 years of bad design. I really wish people would just stop beating this dead horse.
ahoka··on Should I Run Plain Docker Compose in Production in 2026?
Most companies I’ve seen from the inside were using containerd or crio.
ahoka··on Over 8M Thermos jars and bottles recalled after 3 people lost vision
I think most people have the expectation of not getting a cap in the eyes when opening something.
ahoka··on Let's Buy Spirit Air
Welcome to feudalism, yay.
ahoka··on Why IPv6 is so complicated
IPv6 is classic second system effect.
ahoka··on LLMs consistently pick resumes they generate over ones by humans or other models
Just one example of many: https://support.teamtailor.com/en/articles/9424192-co-pilot-...
ahoka··on Why does it take so long to release black fan versions?
Why do Ferraris seem to almost always made in red?
ahoka··on Job Postings for Software Engineers Are Rapidly Rising
It’s not a crash, but a huuuge peak around ‘22.
ahoka··on Where the goblins came from
In Shadowrun, the goblinization starts on April 30. Coincidence?
ahoka··on Why AI companies want you to be afraid of them
Well do you make 100 billion bucks with it? If no, then not AGI.
ahoka··on Microsoft and OpenAI end their exclusive and revenue-sharing deal
AGI is when the capitalists are not forced to share their profits with the intelligentsia.
ahoka··on Math Is Hard – OpenBSD Stories
It's exactly like that. :)
ahoka··on GPT-5.5
"take a deep breath"

OMFG

ahoka··on The Ferrari of Espresso Machines Is Fueling a Hot Resale Market
All that effort to serve lemon juice. Sigh...
ahoka··on Too much discussion of the XOR swap trick
When I opened the article, I have immediately searched for "register renaming"...
ahoka··on DRAM has a design flaw from 1966. I bypassed it [video]
Companies are standing in line to double their RAM usage right now, right.
ahoka··on DRAM pricing is killing the hobbyist SBC market
The whole point was to kill personal computing.
ahoka··on Copilot edited an ad into my PR
It's still advertisement of the shittiest kind.

Comment made using Mozilla Firefox.

ahoka··on Antimatter has been transported for the first time
All I know is that you cannot transport toilet paper in tunnels.
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